Coming to terms with the challenge of modernity has been a major concern for Muslim
scholars. Faced with the reality of the global system of nation states, and the question that
the challenges of secularism, democracy ...

Islamic resurgent movements have striven to accomplish an Islamic way of life off their own version of an Islamic state, struggling against the socio-economic and political objectives of governments. While autocratic ...

This study investigates the connection between the biblical references to the Gospels in Actae Thoma, or the Apocryphal Acts of Judas Thomas, and the text of the Vetus Syria. The main objective is to verify whether the ...

The history of Muslims in Pretoria began two decades after the arrival of the first Muslims
to Natal from India and over two centuries after those in the Cape.
Historians and researchers have undertaken the study of the ...

Shari `ah the Islamic "legal system" has been studied and depicted in many ways.
Schacht writes, "Islamic law is the epitome of thought, the most typical
manifestation of the Islamic way of life, the core and kernel of ...

This thesis is an examination of “interfaith praxis” in the South African struggle for liberation, with particular emphasis on Muslim-Christian relations. We begin with an overview of the epistemological and theological ...

By means of a conditional clause al-Tawbah 9:24 implicitly states that love for the Prophet (pbuh) alongside love for Allah and ‘jihad in His way’ must be greater than affection for family and relatives, and attachment to ...